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Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1887-06-07
P,euro-ppeumopia in New York.

New YORK, June 7-Pleuro-pneumonia i'll
the northern towns of Westchester county has
assumed a very serious and alarming condi-
lion within the last two weeks The disease
was first detected in March aud the state an
thoriteS were notified The widespread dis
tribntion of the disease by the arrival and
sale of an infected drove of mich cows from
the west caused serious apprehension at once,
and the authorities at Washington City Were
notified and immediately sent a corps Of eN
perts to the scene The result is that quar-
antiun has been established so strict that cat
tie tan not he taken from one farm to ait
other There are q, 00 cattle in the county
and Of these S63 have been condemned Tn,
government allows $40 per head for COOL cat
tie aud SO for infected. Besides this, infecte,
harms. etc, are burned and the very ground
on which they stand is disinfected The meat
is destroyed also, as it is believed that the dis
ease can he communicated to the human sy~
tenn by eating the infected meat
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1887-06-07

White tulle berthss are prettily trimmed
with white chenille birds.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1887-06-07

An English lord was sent home last
week al the expense of certain interested
New Workers.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1887-06-07

WHEELING, W. Va, June Sunday
afternoon the congregation of the German
Lutheran church at Bridgeport, opposite this
city, laid the corner stone of their proposed
new church edifice with imposing ceremonies,
and in the presence of large crowd of people
In addition to Il number of documents there
was inclosed in the corner stone a cOnsidera-
BILE sum of money, United States and foreign,
and a number Of rare coins. During the
night thieves tore out the masonry of the
corner stone and carried OF the copper box
containing the cash and nementoes.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1887-06-07

The presence of two or three men at
an afternoon reception last week nearly
broke up the party.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1887-06-07
EIf'S
CATAR al

particle uf the Balm is ap;.licd into each nos
tril, is agreeable 10 ana Is quickly absorbed.
ctfeCtGallY cleansing the uasaJ passages Of ca
thaFrhai yl,us. causing healthy scCreuouz.
II allay- pain and iniiammai II. protects the
membrinai Innings Of the head from additional
coils completely heals the sores and restores the
sense Of taste amp smell. Bench ial rrsalts are
realized by few applications 4 tHpraug4 treat
'RsRt JrjH cure. Price 81 cents at druggists: by
mail, registered, to cents. Circulars s.nt free.
ELN BROTHERS, DR. Ggsistz, QweCo, NY
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-02-09

particulars to please his own fancy. The
Philadelphia printer embelished his
with a portrait of the Father of his
Country and Mr.. Thomas, the great
New England printer, not to be out
done, ornamented his with vile wood
cut of what purported to be Noah
Webster, Junior, Esq This wood
engraving and the absurd title of the
book were made, for want of better,
the points of attack by those at enmity
with him. To all who studied the
speller the part that probably made
the greatest impression was the Select
Fables These were an afterthought
of the author, for they do not appear in
the earliest editions. How many have
carried along, in after life, the moral
lessons taught by The Country Maid
and Her Milk Pail, The Fox and the
Swallow The Cat and the Rat, The
Fox and the Bramble,' and many other
equally sharp examples of evil doing,
which were probably quite as eflicacious
on the ethics as the corrections in pro-
nunciation were on the language of the
children. Imagine the quantity of
moral philosophy that must have been
dealt out Especially to the youths) in
the 10000, 900 copies of this book"
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-02-09
Single Blessedness.

Many girl looks on marriage as
vocation who has never thought of the
duties it involves; and | think for a
woman to fail to make and keep a
happy home is to be " failure - in a
truer sense than to have failed to catch
a husband. TO make /" old maid" a
term of reproach has mischeyous re-
suits and causes many an ill-assorted
marriage. Girls have been hurried into
marriage by the dread of being so stig-
matized who have repented the step to
their dying day. The sacredness of
marriage, and the serious responsible
tiles it brings, are either ignored alto
gether or but lightly considered when
marriage is represented as the only pro-
fesson for women. There is no truth
in Brigham Young's doctrine that only
woman sealed to a man in marriage
can possibly be saved. Let mothers
teach their daughters that although a
well-assorted marriage, based upon mu-
tual love and esteem, may be the hap
piest calling for woman, yet that mar
riage brings its peculiar trials as well
as special joys, and that it is quite pos
sible for woman to be both useful and
| happy, although youth be fled, and the
browning joys of life-wife and mother
hood-have passed her by or been vol
UNFAIRLY surrendered. Who does not
know g old maids " who are the light
and the stay of homes darkened by sor-
row and tottering by the strokes of af-
Fiction? "Auntie " is respected and
beloved by her nephews and nieces,
for she has ceased to think of her own
happiness, and is always planning for
the good of others. She is not soured
by celibacy, but sheds upon all who
come in her way the sweetness of
good temper and the light of practical
wisdom. She has not home of her
own, but, as Wesley did, she takes the
world for her parish, and becomes the
neighbor of every one who needs her
help.-CaSselps Family Magazine.
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Questions Answered.

G.. H., RUTLAND.-A soldier of the
Mexican war with ample means for a
support and not incapacitated for labor
is not entitled to pension under the re-
cent act of congress until he becomes
siXty-two years of age.
r.. E., TYsoN.-You have a right to
receive pay from a soldier for assisting
him in procuring testimony to establish
his right to a pension, the charge to in
clude your expenses, team and reas-
enable sum for the time you spent in
his service.
ID. S., RoUsEs POINT, n. Y.-Pres-
ident Cleveland, when governor of the
state of New York, vetoed bill impos-
ing fine for party to wear the Grand
Army badge who did not belong to that
organization. a similar bill has been
introduced in congress and is liable to
come before him for his approval or
disapproval. 1t is said that he will not
veto it again.
II. c. H., CAMBRIDGE, MAss.-This
correspondent relates a sad affair that
occurred in Boston recently. He says
an applicant for increase of pension on
account of disability resulting from
heart disease and paralysis, who had had
three unsuccessful examinations by as
many different boards of surgeons, was
finally sent before a board in Boston
for examination. The surgeons, while
making the examination with a sharp
instrument like needle, in piercing
his side to ascertain the extent of feel
ing existing in the paralyzed side of the
soldier accidently struck his heart and
the soldier fell dead at the surgeons feet.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-02-09
WOman's Best Work.

To shut up every woman in dwell
ing-house and make of her an ami
mated broom and dust-pan is to abuse
a great many women and ruin great
many houses. But though a woman
may hold in her hand pen tipped
with the fire of genius, or brush that
paints her name in glory, or a chisel
that carves her fame among the ever
living great-the woman who makes
her home the perfect home for those
who are OF her family is the one that
does the best thing that any woman
can do. Work and rest are the
enforced conditions of life. Men
must work, and home should be for
them above all things place of rest
1t must be, then, place of bodily COM
forts and mental cheer. 1t must be
place of order and quietness. 1t should
be a Clearly place. Scolding and i'll
temper and complaining spoil the spirit
of any home. For home is not sub
stance-a thing; it is an essence. True
housekeeping consists not only in
cleaning things but in keeping them
clean. Still, there is such a thing as
keeping house too anXiously. Cleanli
ness that forbids freedom is an evil.
There are those who will not let trees
grow about their house because they
shed their leaves. | know a woman
who calls up the members of her fam
lily to measure their dnger-prints when
she detects such marks on her window
glass or woodwork. | knew man who
to his dying day never stepped on door
sill, but always carefully over it, so
strong did the impression remain with
him of his mothers rigid housekeep-
ing.-NeC England Farmer.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-02-09
Select Nlistellanp.
An Overture.

There was silence.
Out across its furthest unknown rim
There fell a whispering Of mufiled drums
Even one slant ray of purple dim
Across the altar a Sabbath comes.
Then from the highest realms of rapt, harmonic
sound
There came a voice of muted strings i'm one long
breath;
Full of a solemn yearning, sweet and so profound,
1t seemed the expiring sigh of music in its death.
A simple melody of flute and reeds
Flowed softly out across the trembling air,
Fun of a meaning delicate and rare
Some said dying maiden told her beads.
That sank. A single halfclosed horn
Drew one long note like to the knell of morn;
Then once again that rapt harmonic sound
Full of yearning solemn and profound;
And then the mufiled drums, i'm whispered throb,
Went out to silence with one trembling throb
Black night black night and sleep that are lowering
DER us,
Shadows of death and glimmer of gloom that we
hate.
In the of sound spread in the depths be-
fore us,
Dark as the grave and deep the portals Of fate.
Full fifty bows leapt upward then
Across fun fifty strings,
And smote them into life again,
Like fifty living things.
Outspoke the cymbal's martial clang,
Outpeaed the brazen horn
And all the stricken silence rang
With mastering sound new born.
Pulses of love and passions of fire that swelling
Up to the lips from out of the bursting soul
Dreams of the summer Of youth that are too swee
for telling
Ia hot I'm Of
Then downward, as some fair and unknown star
Goes Keeling through the cloudless night,
That storm of joy fell quickly from afar
And stayed its mighty flight.
Once more from realms of high harmonic sound
There came a voice of muted strings
Full of love and yearning all profound,
/ And dear unspoken things.
! Then far across the furthest unknown rim
| stole out the whispering of mufied drums,
! Even as one slant ray of purple dim
Across the altar on a Sabbath comes
There was a silence. w j. Henderson.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-02-09

man who attempts fraud is likely to be
tripped up in the attempt. Then,
there is such complete set of war
records, hospital reports and com
pany rosters that it is a most difficult
thing to procure a fraudulent pension.
A common way of getting such pen
sion is for man to personate dead
soldier whom he knows to have hos
pital record clear and authentic that
would entitle him to pension If alive,
and by getting people to swear that he
is the man run pension through.
But it is a risky business. The most
frequent cases of frauds, some OF them
unintentional, are committed by women
who have drawn pensions as widows
and have remarked. Under the law
the pension then ceases, but frequently
these women 90 right ahead drawing
their pensions until they are discov-
cred. There is no doubt in the world
that there is some petty fraud in the
procuring of pensions. That is, man
with some weak points in his case will
have them strengthened by comrade
swearing falsely, he returning the favor
in turn. But we are pretty sure to
catch fraudulent pensioner sooner or
later, and we are recovering money all
the time. In order to protect the office
and detect attempts at fraud we have
stationed at different points over the
country about one hundred fifty agents,
who are known as special examiners.
These men have their headquarters in
a city and from that point will make
trips into the country around to look
up witnesses, see if there are any such
persons, and see if there are reliable
people BY the efforts of these special
examiners we detect and prevent frauds
in the pension bureau. "-Selected.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-02-09
HALLS CATARRH CURE.
S1OO---Reward---S1OO.

The readers of the WATCHMAN will
be pleased to learn that there is at
least one dreaded disease that science
has been able to cure in all its stages,
and that is Catarrh. Halls Catarrh
Cure is the only positive cure now
known in the medical fraternity.
Catarrh, being constitutional dis
ease, requires a constitutional treat
ment. HALLS Catarrh Cure is taken
internally, acting directly upon the
blood and mucus surfaces of the sys-
tenn, thereby destroying the foundation
of the disease and giving the patient
strength by building up the constitu-
ton and assisting nature in doing its
work. The proprietors have so much
faith in its curative powers that they
offer one hundred dollars for any case
it fails to cure. Send for list of testi-
monials. Address
+. j. CHENEY Il CO.,
Toledo, Ohio.
CO Sold by druggists at seventy-fve
cents.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-02-09
Pension Frauds.

SIN the annual distribution of $685.
900, 900 among three hundred seventy
five thousand people there must neces-
sarily be some cases of fraud by people
receiving money that does not belong
to them" said a pension office official
the other day, "but there is not as
much fraud attempted as one would
think. There is such a system of red
tape regarding witnesses and aflidavits
in the procuring of pension that a
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-02-09
Soldiers &uoort.
Pensions Granted.

To Colonel John b. Mead, West
Randolph, 1925 a month and SlS5 ar
rears; Abel Long, Rutland, formerly OF
Huntington, $50 month and $4,000
arrears; Martha w. Brooks, st. Adams,
a dependent mother, $50 a month and
50, $50 arrears; G. A. Hatch, Franklin,
Sl2 month and 81 100 arrears.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-02-09

CAPTAIN MITCHELL of the bark
Antoine Sala, New York and Havana
trade, came home in May entirely
helpless with rheumatism. He wentto
he mountains, but, receiving no bene-
it, at his wife's request began to take
Hoods Sarsaparilla. He Immediately
began to improve; in two months his
rheumatism was all gone and he sailed
in command of his vessel a well man.
Hoods Sarsaparilla will help you,
Sold by all druggists pCYkSN
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-02-09

YOUNG or middle-aged men suffer
ing from nervous debility, loss of mem
DRY, premature old age, as the result of
bad habits, should send ten cents in
stamps for large illustrated treatise
suggesting unfailing cure. Address
Worlds Dispensary Medical Associa-
ton, Buffalo, n, Y.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-02-09

Is there sixth sense?" is prob
lem widely agitated. Yes, we answer.
1t is the sense of decency.- Phila-
delphia CAL.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-02-09

PRAIRIE fires have devastated $780,
900 acres in Texas this year.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-02-09

CHRONIC nasal catarrh-guaranteed
cure-Dr. Sage's Catarrh Remedy.
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To Our Subscribers
Superb Steel Engraving of longfeow
in His Library

By special arrangement with the publishers of oyers SUI
perb spple steel engraving of the poet Henry w. Longellow
his Library will send copy securely packed and postage
paid every subscriber who will remit tyeight Cents in adj
diton years subscription price Two Dollars for this paper
We will also send copy Of the engraving free to sending
subscribers for year The cut below represents
the engraving in reduced size.
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Daily Republican., 1887-07-19
Iisahoasa In thu Navy.

WASHINGTON. July Is The Board
of Naval On GERS, cor stating OF Captain
F. NJ. Ramsay Captain n. II. Farquhar
and Naval Constructor P. Hichoorn,
which last spripg considered the ques-
ton Of lifebosts for the naval service,
reported to the Secretary OF lhe Navy
that no iiieboat could be found adapta'
BILE for the pavRl service.
Secretary Whitney was not satisdei
with the report, lowtv and has or
dered the Board tc uvene Tor 6 oon'
siderat!on of his enforcement on the
report, which reads: "rhe recon mon
dationu of this BJaId ale not definite.
wish to know;
First, .ls not one or another form o'
lifeboss In general use in merchant ser
vice? Second, What are the most sp
proved ones, and which has the mos
merit? Third, Why should not th'
naval service sdop: such improvements
over the old form Of boats as tho life
boat representa-? Most OF . naval yes
sells boats nre csrrlets for life-lavini
purposes"
Daily Republican., 1887-07-19
News IN Brief

The infant King of Spain has q salary
of 81, 500, ,0JQ year and the juvenile En-
peror of China. gets $50, 10000. why
don't some OF ou, big candidates fol a
$780, 900 Presidency try their luck in Spain
or ChnA.
The First Presbyterian Sunday School
will make an excursion to French Creek
Falls, on the W, Il n. Railroad on
Thursday, the 2lst init.
The Dean Wooden Company offers for
sale $50 tous of wooden machipers, about
ten acres of land, fifty horse water pow
er, etc
President Garrett, of the Baltimore and
Ohio, will sail for Europe on Saturday
l. he untiring interviewer has only -four
DAYS IN re in which 70 find out what 1t
kaows about tle "deal."
The stories Of terrible starvation In
Labrador have cJr.e round agaio. and
.his ttme the Newfoundland ofiiois
organ which Denied the N bsfors atnrmt
th III.
Dwight L. Moody, the evangelist, !,
co tempt s,iny an eXt' nded tour OF India
He thinks India q iir I rate field for mis-
sion work
Baseball upp!res now receive $3.50 {
mon b, ESQ of which is supposed to be foI
umpiring the game and S20O for standing
| the abuse OF the crowd.
According 10 the Chicago journal, ex
Governor 81. John, OF Kansas, receives
$50 day and expenses for presiding owe
| Prohibition jubilee.
Daily Republican., 1887-07-19
Ocean Grove Camp Meeting.

OCEAN GROVE, n. j.. July 1S.-Ir
the Sunday School Assembly to-day
Mis-. Loomis gave a lessou to children
on "Tbe Kings Of Judah" In the
young peoples meeting the subject
cops idersd WAS The Word of God ,
The normal classes reviewed theiI
work Of last week. A primary teachers
conference WAS conduc. by Mrs. K 8
Todd, of Baltimore, and at the same
hour Mr.. Yatman addressed the mem
bers OF his training class in the temple
speas ing on "Aids TO Soul Winning
Bishop Hurst to-day held ministers
institute and in al address to thoes
present he TOOK the RrouId that tht
ministry should he prepared to meet
the advanced thought OF the age
Among the other events of the day wsi
an interesting lecture on tho subject
THAT Rih," by the Ksv. L. Harcou:t
d. D., OF Jersey City.
Daily Republican., 1887-07-19
FOURTH EDITION
A Cruelty Treated boy.

CHICAGO, July 1s-A local paper
sayt: Robert q. Ferguson, aged IL
5 ears. ct La Grange, Ill, who has beeu
con fined In y "Christian Home" at
Humboldt Park for SONS time, was
found on the street yesterday with iron
shacsles on his feet. Ho tells the fol-
10 sing story:
There were Mt the home fivo other boys
Decides bimself. They were fed on pc
tatoes ard water, each boy receiving d
certain allowance three limos a day,
provided that nc had no. been unruly.
Robert said ha stood the treatment a
few daya and then escaped and t'u6ged
hsms. Els father at once sent him
back.
On his arrival the Rev. Are old, who
is In charge OF the place, chained him
in an up stairs room and put him On
half rations. He WAS kept their four
days and was then released on promis-
iEg good behavior, That night he once
more started for La Grange, but was
caught and again chained In the room.
This time he was kept in the shackles
ten days Yesterday, while Arnold
was at church, Robert, with the assist
ance of the other boys, escap ped to the
street, where he was found.
just as the boy finished telling his
story Arnold walked into the station 10
claim him. he admitted that q part OF
the boys stor2 was true, but said that
he only acted in hind ness. Asnold was
arrested.
Daily Republican., 1887-07-19
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No knights of Labor Whisky.

WAsHISGToy, July lS.-The Commits.
sioner of Patents has rendered an i'm
portant decision IN the case of an appii-
cation to register Il trademark 70. dis
titled spirits In which the words knights
of Labor" and "k. of L. Distil;ery" ap
pear. The Commissioner states that
there is no pretense that the manulactur-
ers of this particular brand Of whisky
who seek to register the trade mark are
knights OF Labor, or are engaged In
business with them or under their auspi.
ces. In other words, the proposed .rade-
mark is In the nature OF false represen.
tation and deception as to the general
public, possibly inducing them to pur
chase an artic e under the belief that 1t is
Manufactured by society in which they
have Q friendly interest," The Commis
sioner, therefore, on the ground OF the
false .preteIse OF such trademark, re-
fuses its registration.
Daily Republican., 1887-07-19
Threw peppee Into a Child's Eyes,

BURLINGTON, y. J =, July lS.-This
morning Mrs. Thomas Foster, of this
place, was arrested on the charge o.
throwing pepper into the face and eyes OF
Philetta Kimhle, daughter CT Mrs. kebec.
ca kimble, of this place. The child was
sitting on the front stoop. playing, when
Mrs Foster walked by and threw the
pepper at her. Mrs. Foster is hard
drinker, and is continually creating dis
turhances In the neighoorhood where she
resides. Recently, while on one of these
sprees. she was arrested on 4 compliant OF
Mrs. K,mble and bound over to keep the
peace. She took her revenge by injuring
the cAill